#Contribute2WP – Learn/Training Contributor Day

Welcome

The WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through learn.wordpress.org.

Are you new to the team?

Getting Started – Join the team through this self-guided onboarding program

Current Focus Areas – What we’re currently focusing on

Already onboarded and ready to get involved?

See How we use GitHub to get started on one of our 6 project boards

Meetings (Calendar)

You can join these meetings from the #training Slack channel:

Weekly meeting: Thursdays 00:00 UTC

Dev-squad GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ triage: Thursdays 07:00 UTC

See Meeting Details for more information.

Announcing #Contribute2WP A Two-Day WordPress Contribution Event

In conjunction with WP Engine, the Training team will host an onboarding session for contributors interested in working on Learn.WordPress.org. WP Engine will host the contributor times from 8 am PDT on October 29 to 8 am PDT on October 31.

Learn WordPress Includes:

Workshop

Lesson Plan

Course

Contribution Needs:

Draft a workshop or course (submit in advance to commence work during Contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.)
Develop site functionality
Write a lesson plan (similar to writing Docs)
Scope & sequence of what to learn – this roadmap can be ammended, expanded, or with more details
Translate and subtitle content on Learn
Review Lesson Plans that are Drafts in Learn to preview for publishing. See Brand Usagage Guidelines
Audit content for WP feature updates

Learn has a lot of work in progress

Want to get up to speed with some of the big decisions happening about LearnWP? Review and comments welcome.

Learner achievements for courses
Learn WordPress Needs Assement Results (UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it. Audit Results)
A Dedicated Volunteer Program for the Training Team
Should Learn WordPress contributors be GPL compliant?
PROPOSAL: Ensuring high-quality video contributions to Learn WordPress
Monthly Sprints (What we’re creating now)

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